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News Release: A Tulsa man who took part in two carjackings was sentenced in federal court Friday, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. His two codefendants were sentenced in January.
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News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Corey Buckley, 42, formerly of Plaistow, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on Feb. 1, 2023 United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced KAREN FARRELL TIGLER, age 40, of Marrero, Louisiana, to twenty-seven (27) months imprisonment followed by two (2) years of supervised release for violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344 (Bank Fraud), and Making and Subscribing False Tax Returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1).
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News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment on Feb. 1, 2023 charging Elberto Berdut-Teruel, Wanda L. Carballo-Cabrera, María Santos-Carballo, and Magnetic Healer of PR Inc. with conspiracy and introduction of adulterated and misbranded devices with intent to defraud and mislead, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and alteration of a device after shipment in interstate commerce.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that MARIO RENE REYES-CARDONA, age 51, pleaded guilty on Feb. 2, 2023 as charged to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
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News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Todd Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Field Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris for the Central District of Illinois announced that Gabriel Antonio Montano-Rodriguez, 41, was sentenced last month to 324 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of ice methamphetamine.
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News Release: Food and ingredient manufacturing company Kerry Inc. pleaded guilty today to a charge that it manufactured breakfast cereal under insanitary conditions at a facility in Gridley, Illinois, that was linked to a 2018 salmonellosis outbreak.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that SOLOMON BURKE, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on Feb. 1, 2023 before U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to a violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
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News Release: A former Arkansas State Senator was sentenced today to 46 months in prison in the Eastern District of Arkansas for accepting multiple bribes and tax fraud in connection with a multi-district investigation spanning the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas and the Western District of Missouri.
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News Release: CONCORD - Pierre Rogers, 44, of Irvine, California, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, United States Attorney Jane E. Young, William A. Kalb, Special Agent in Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Northeast Field Division, and Timothy R. Benitez, Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, announced today.
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News Release: BANGOR, Maine: Two men from Manchester, England pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor today to interference with a flight crew and assault. The charges stem from an incident on a TUI Airways flight that diverted to Bangor International Airport (BIA) last month.
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News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Victor Pennington, 27, Tomah, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 12 years in federal prison for distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine as part of a conspiracy. This prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release.
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a Puerto Rican man today of extortion and obstruction of justice related to his involvement in a scheme to obtain money in exchange for preventing the release of chat messages involving senior officials in the Government of Puerto Rico.
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News Release: MIAMI - Colleen Marie Kilnapp, 56, of Boca Raton, Fla., has made her first appearance in federal court to face charges that she violated a Captain of the Port Order issued by U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Captain of the Port, Miami.
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News Release: James Bradley, aka Abdullah, 21, of the Bronx, New York, and Arwa Muthana, 30, of Hoover, Alabama, were sentenced to 11 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release and nine years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, respectively, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
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News Release: WASHINGTON - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of assaulting police for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICKOLAS SHARP pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to multiple federal crimes in connection with a scheme he perpetrated to secretly steal gigabytes of confidential files from a public New York-based...
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News Release: KNOXVILLE Tenn. - On Feb. 2, 2023, Bryce Allen Axline, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 65 months in federal prison for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Axline was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution and, upon his release from prison, he will be on federal supervised release for three years.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -TYLAR REDDITT, age 21, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was charged Feb. 2, 2023, in a two-count indictment by a federal grand jury with violations of the Federal Gun Control and Federal Controlled Substances Acts, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
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News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Kenneth Lawrence Baca, age 44, of Pueblo, was sentenced to 190 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felon in possession of a firearm.